war

Tour of Duty: Coming Back Into the Real World Once the War is Won, or Lost

Submitted by David Moss, Published on Tue, 03/26/2013 - 01:13

War is a devastating thing. It makes people do silly things. The soldiers who fight for governments generally have a pretty hard time coming back to the normality of life from the brutality of war. PTSD for example, or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, is one thing to consider.

The Abstraction

Submitted by Sean Hurley, Published on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 11:43

Money is nothing more than a term which represents an abstract form of exchange of labour for purchasing power. This article will not investigate interest, loans, debt or the creation of money.
For in reality money could be gold, silver, match sticks or pine nuts. Here we will concentrate on the direct result of defining a value to labour to use in exchange for purchasing power.

While it may be offered that the abstraction (money) simply allows for delayed trade to take place, such as;
Human x has some chocolate.

A Different Look at the Ballot

Submitted by Ricardo Begonha, Published on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 19:54

A train of thought transmits upon those who believe in it its explicit and implicit ideas. The first are the main characteristics which define most of the ideology and are normally static. These concepts are the ones upon all the members agree in order to be apart of a given organization. The implicit ideas though, develop naturally from the main premises but vary according to the individual.

The End of Fighter Aviation

Submitted by Mark Jones, Published on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 22:12

A fascinating thing occurs when a fighter pilot realizes his aircraft is equipped with a radar. It’s on his second or third flight after being assigned to a fleet model while he’s cruising on some jet route in the sunshine, snug wrapped in canvas and fire resistant Nomex flipping switches he knows nothing about. Radars to him are lawn fixtures to get satellite cable, or just things rotating on control towers at airports. And why would an airplane even need to transmit anything in the first place?

TZM: Response to Media; Death of Osama bin Laden

Submitted by TZM global, Published on Tue, 05/03/2011 - 18:53

On May 1, 2011 Pres. Barack Obama appeared on national television with the spontaneous announcement that Osama bin Laden, the purported organizer of the tragic events of September 11th 2001, was killed by military forces in Pakistan.